ABOUT US
David J. Sullivan
Owner / Audio Engineer
David J. Sullivan has been recording music for more than 20 years, and has worked with many producers and musicians including Ra Kalam Bob Moses, Dave Liebman, Billy Hart, Ran Blake, Daniel Bitran, Gaia Wilmer, Allan Chase, Tony Falco and Tony Malaby. He specializes in both studio and location recording with experience in all genres. If you are in need of an exceptional sounding record, don't hesitate to contact him.
Clients &
Visiting Luminaries
Location recording in the home of legendary Ran Blake (Duo with Daniel bitran)
Tsuyoshi Honjo With ra kalam bob moses Duo Live, no seperation
Jim warshauer (with Eric dhalman, keiichi hashimoto, John lockwood, and Ra Kalam Bob Moses)
Ethan klotz (Day 2 with Gabe Toth, Nitzan Brinbaum, bruno raberg, hank fisher, and Ra Kalam Bob Moses)
Ethan klotz (Day 1 with Gabe Toth, Nitzan Brinbaum, John lockwood, and Ra Kalam Bob Moses)
Tsuyoshi Honjo (With dave bryant and ra kalam bob moses)
Ethan klotz (with Nadive Lavie, Nitzan Brinbaum, Edmar Colon, and Ra Kalam Bob Moses)
Heart Breath Ensemble
Jeff “JJ” Armstrong
Damon Smith
Wesley WIrth
Bill Lowe
Steve Kuhn
Ned Rothenberg
Tony Malaby, Allan Chase and Edmar Colon
Daniel Bitran Donath
Edmar Colon and friends
peter j. adamson
dAVE lIEBMAN
Stan Strickland
Edmar colon
ALLAN CHASE
Kenwood Dennard
David Eure
Jerry Bergonzi
Bukky Leo
Dave Liebman
Virginia Rogers, Bob Gay, Vivek Patel
Ryan Nielsen and john lockwood
Tupac mantilla
Tools
The Malden Space
Computer:
Fundamental AV Z490 NEO-CL (x2 Comet Lake 5.3 GHz, 16G RAM)
Slick Audio T4100 (Skylake 4.4 GHz, 64G RAM)
Mac Pro (X5690 3.46 GHz, 32G RAM)
MacBook Pro (2.6GHz Quad Core i7, 8G RAM, 2 internal SSD drives)
20 Terabytes of drive space
Interface:
API A2D (2 channels A/D)
Grace M900 (portable D/A headphone amp)
Metric Halo LIO-8 3d (x3 AD/DA = 24 channels with ADAT, S/Pdif-AES32 and MADI EdgeBus cards)
Midas XL48 (8 channels A/D)
MOTU M64 (x3 MADI)
Mic amps:
API 312 (2 channels as A2D)
API 3124 (4 channels)
DACS MicAmp II (2 channels)
Daking Mic-pre/EQ (2 channels)
Heritage Audio DTT-73 (2 channels)
Metric Halo ULN-R (24 channels)
Midas XL4 (8 channels as XL48)
Pendulum Audio MDP-1 Vacuum Tube Mic/DI Preamp (2 channels)
RND Portico 5024 (4 channels)
Tubetech MP1A Vacuum Tube Mic/DI Preamp (2 channels)
Vintech Dual 72 (2 channels)
Microphones:
SDC
Audio Technica 4051a (x2 matched)
DPA 4099 (with bass and sax attachments)
Earthworks DM20 (x4 matched with consecutive serial numbers)
Earthworks QTC50 (x2 matched)
Josephson C42 (x2 matched)
Line Audio CM3 (×8)
Shure Beta 181/C (x2)
LDC
AKG 414eb
Audio Technica 4047
Lawson L47MPII Vacuum Tube
M-Audio Sputnik
Microtech Gefell MT71 (x2)
Microtech Gefell UM70 (x2)
Microtech Gefell UMT70 (x2)
Microtech Gefell UMT800
Ribbon
Royer 121
Shure KSM 313 (x3)
Shure KSM 353/ED (×2)
Dynamic
Audix I5 (x4)
Audix D6
Electro-Voice RE 20
Sennheiser MD 441-U (1985)
Sennheiser MD 441-U (x4 2018)
Shure KSM 8 (x2)
Shure SM 57
Mixing monitors:
Barefoot MM-27
Reference headphones:
Audeze LCD-X (2021 Edition)
Focal Clear Professional
Focal Listen Professional (live tracking)
Grado GS1000
Studio monitoring:
Behringer Powerplay P16-I and D (16-channel headphone distribution amplifier)
Behringer P16-M (personal mixer x5)
Furman HDS-6 (6-channel headphone distribution amplifier)
Furman HR-6 (personal mixer x3)
Mackie 402 (personal mixer x2)
M-Audio BX4 (studio talkback speaker x2)
Direct boxes, reamps, etc.:
Heritage Audio DTT-73 (2 channels active DI with passthrough)
Radial ProDI (passive DI with passthrough)
Radial JS3 (mic splitter)
Radial X-Amp (1 in 2 out active re-amping device)
RND Portico 5024 (2 channels active DI with passthrough)
Tracking headphones:
AKG K240
Shure SRH1440
Yamaha RH2C
Monoprice DJ (x 10)
DAW:
Cubase 6
Samplitude 10 Pro
Reaper 7
Mixing software:
Acustica Audio Cola, Coral, Cream, Crimson, Coffee, Diamond Color EQ, Diamond Transient, Ebony, El Rey, Emerald, Gold, Honey, Lemon, Lime, Midnight, Mystic, Navy, Pink, Salt, Sand, Sienna, Taupe, Tulip, Tiger Mix Ultra, Ultramarine, Viridian, Water, Nebula 4
Tim Petheric L-Bus, RA6, Vari-Level, OPTO 32, Blue Mu, 100a, NTwenty65 filters
Cupwise AX102, Yourie filters
DMG Equilibrium, Expurgate, Limitless, Multiplicity
IK Multimedia T-RackS Tape Machine Collection
LiquidSonics Seventh Heaven
Softube Console 1 MkII, SSL XL 9000 K, British Class A, American Class A
Sound Toys Little Plate
Waves Abbey Road Plates, H-Reverb, NLS, Nx (with two headtrackers)
Sonarworks Reference 4 Headphone software
Samplers:
Kontakt 4 (with a large and diverse sample library that is growing every day)
Toon Track SD2 (with DFH, Twisted Kit, and Latin Percussion, expansion packs)
Mixing room:
The Malden space mixing facility has been treated exclusively with RealTraps® high-performance acoustic treatment for maximum room frequency balance and accurate monitoring
Music Room
Mixing room
Our mixing facility has been treated with realtraps® high-performance acoustic treatment for maximum room frequency balance and accurate monitoring.
We use Barefoot MM-27 monitors for our mixing and critical listening work. Here is a little information from their web site: www.barefootsound.com